That second piece, Manok Tanca, wow!! I don't think that there are too many pianists who can move their fingers across the keyboard that fast, and making each note so precise and with the right touch and tone. That pianist playing this is obviously a genius like Eugene Kissen
That's the best permormance of "Waldesrauschen" that I have heard in my whole life! And "Gnomenreigen" is also great. I have heard Bolet, Arrau, Cziffra and the others, but this girl is wonderful! I would prefer see her, instead of read the sheet music, but I thank you for publishing this video!
1) No, this wasn't from a performance video - it's just audio. And by the time I uploaded this video, the source video can't be found anymore. 2) Yeah, you're welcome. :D
What a pity you only posted clips of computer games and not your performance of these 4 great pieces. I think there are more people than me in this blog who were happy to listen to your interpretation of the pieces.
It's always a true pleasure to listen to these two masterpieces, former homage to Wagner mood and atmosphere, latter homage to Mendelssohn world, both so genuinely Lisztian.
When I first read of Gnomenreigen (I was reading about how Liszt's students liked to play it too fast, it did not mention the meaning of the name nor was there audio) I thought of gnomes and rain (regen in German is rain and the word looks similar enough)(although I do wonder why it is not Zwergreigen), and just sort of figured that the gnomes would dance in it... Now I have heard the piece and read the description of it, and I have to say both the tile and the piece now make a lot of sense. It is also performed wonderfully. Thanks for uploading this.
Fantastic! Both the music and the performance. Her tempo in Gmonenreigen is even more phenomenal than Bolet on RU-vid. Her opening tempo in Waldesrauchen is not as fast as Hamelin's on RU-vid, but I think that's a good thing - more reasonable for the music, which is supposed to evoke breeze in the trees, not zip by as fast as possible. And anyway, her cadenza-like passages are just as virtuosic.
The Gnomenriegen is just such a phenomenal work, & this pianist, Klara Wurtz, Just rippin' it out! Wow! Ever since I saw the video years back of Yumi playing this as a 5-year-old years back I've been just hooked on Liszt. There is no greater instrument than Piano, it's like the only instrument, once the piano was worked out, everything else is just tinny, buzzy, horn-y, and all those guitars, ugh, & every single sampled sound pumped through digital & speakers, just thin & completely inferior, Nothing close to piano. & if there was one genius the Piano was invented for it's LISZT! (& Art Tatum) Just gorgeous, unmatched. Thanks for posting.
It is indeed Liszt's sacred keys; Db major (C#) in Das Wunder in Christus, and many late pieces end in or on a C#. F# is usually reserved for his most celestial pieces, Elisabeth's aria in his Elisabeth oratorio can be added to the list.
Isn't it 'a' unicorn, and not 'an' unicorn? I know that before a word that starts with a vowel, you usually say 'an', but I thought that you say 'a' before a word that starts with the vowel u but sounds like it starts with the consonant y, like 'unicorn', 'use', 'usual', 'utopia' etc.
What the hell does that mean? I just listened to ethereal music going from Bb major to C# major, among others, and all you can talk about is unicorns? WTF?
That second Etude, Gnomenreigen, sounds amazing! How anybody can move their fingers so fast, and making each key sound so precise and with the perfect touch too as well as playing it at that exhilarating speed!
I managed to hear until 1:35. Hystery, artificial rubatti, no subtle forest atmosphere and rather a cascade of motorical repetition. This could be for a video game ok, but this is a piece or art, destroyed by two hands. Thank you for your video and all the informations you´ve provided
There's no need to compare this to games lmao, just state your point and that's it, we don't need the fancy decorations hiding the fact that you're simply disagreeing with the pianist's intentions
